Sir John Booth
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Colonel Sir John Booth (1610 – 9 May 1678) was an English army officer who served in the English Civil War.
Born at Dunham Massey, Cheshire, he was the fifth son of Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet (1566–1652) and Katherine Anderson (died 1639), daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
His elder surviving brother, William Booth (1595–1636), Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, who succeeded to the family estates, was father of Sir George Booth, 2nd Baronet (cr. Baron Delamer in 1661).[1]
Adherents of the Presbyterian tradition in the Church of England, the Booths were supporters of the Whig Party in Parliament.[2]
Military career
Commissioned into the Cheshire Militia, Booth served in the Parliamentary Army under General the Earl of Stamford during the First Civil War, being promoted Colonel. Appointed Governor of Warrington in 1645, he remained loyal during the 1648 Second English Civil War[3] before his family switched sides following the execution of Charles I in January 1649.[4]
During the Interregnum, Booth was active in the Royalist cause and, accused of conspiring to restore Charles II, was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London.
An accomplished soldier, he commanded his nephew's militia[5] during Booth's Uprising[6] and after the Stuart Restoration in May 1660 Colonel Booth was knighted.
Sir John and Lady Booth later became seated at Woodford Hall near Over in Cheshire, after acquiring the manor of Woodford from Dr Nathan Paget, eventual heir to the Masterson family estate.[7]
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